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Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 41 (XLI), 1/18/1989, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

, Ackley and Schultze are pressing for an immediate tax increase. McNamara then comes in--the situation was sort of--everybody knew you were going to have increased military expenditures, but McNamara comes in because he was worried about his own

Oral history transcript, John Holton, interview 1 (I), 6/19/1975, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

. Rayburn had gone to Bonham. The telephone rang, and he was on the line. He said he just wanted to let me know in case anybody up at the press gallery might be interested that he had just called the Bonham Daily Favorite and had announced that he

Oral history transcript, Sarah T. Hughes, interview 1 (I), 10/7/1968, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

that you got later? H: Not the slightest. Nobody was worried about that at all. F: The ultraconservatives hadn't become quite as flagrant then? H: No. And it was a wonderful reception that the two candidates got. I remember the press car was driving

Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 7 (VII), 10/9/1978, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

in that, too. J: Oh yes, he did. Ray Lee was with the newspaper. G: Let me ask you about the press in that campaign. He had, I guess, some good friends among the newspaper publishers. Do you remember any of them, and the reporters and the editors

Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 32 (XXXII), 8/3/1982-8/4/1982, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

anything to say about [whether he] might run against Lyndon in 1954. He didn't. G: Did LBJ feel that Shivers might consider running? There was an awful lot of-- J: --talk about it. No, I don't think he ever did. But he was aware that the press

Oral history transcript, Tyler Abell, interview 1 (I), 5/8/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)

the press took it seriously. I think that he probably with his friends at least, with his political associates, Johnson apparently was taking himself seriously. I think that he probably learned as a domino player in his very earliest years in Texas how

Oral history transcript, Horace Busby, interview 7 (VII), 12/21/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

or think is tough. Johnson had found out somewhere back--not too far back--he had decided I had a tough streak. I faced down somebody. Well, I faced down once the photographers at Orly Airport in Paris. We were having a press conference and they just

Oral history transcript, Horace Busby, interview 8 (VIII), 4/2/1989, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

don't think. Maybe he did. But he was pressing Johnson and Johnson couldn't hide, couldn't run. He had nobody around him except me and what kind of support am I? Nothing I could say, anyway. Well, Malik thought he was scoring points. Somewhere I have all

Oral history transcript, John Michael Dunn, interview 1 (I), 7/25/1984, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

at times and certainly demanding at times, but he gave me his full confidence and I tried to return that with full loyalty. G: How was Ambassador Lodge with the press? D: Good. He was excellent. He converted what was a very hostile press for Mr
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Oral history transcript, Henry H. Fowler, interview 1 (I), 1/10/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

the LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh 19 responsibility for pressing

Oral history transcript, Charles Frankel, interview 1 (I), 1/29/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

Johnson a couple of times on specific requests froT:l President Johnson to speak to him about this or that bit of legislation, rr.ainly in my field. And he _vas ahlays very professional about it. The press at one point thought--and had it in the paper

Oral history transcript, John L. Sweeney, interview 1 (I), 11/14/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)

a terribly divided party--which we obviously had. There were just countless occasions when in working with him and even with his colleague Bobby Baker at the time that I found many things being done that were little perceived by the press. M: Can you give

Oral history transcript, H. Ralph Taylor, interview 2 (II), 4/4/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

communities. That meeting was an organizational meeting of mid-Western--I don't know what the exact name of it is, but in effect it was an association of citizens organizations involving the Model Cities Program. And Kincy Potter, my press person, had been

Oral history transcript, Richard M. Helms, interview 2 (II), 9/16/1981, by Ted Gittinger (Item)

, and I'll understand why you wouldn't, but Lansdale was a rather legendary figure I think in the press and popularly, although I think Graham Greene didn't think as much of him as a good many other people and saw him as rather a sinister figure than

Oral history transcript, Juanita Roberts, interview 3 (III), 10/17/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

it was Saturday that the White House staff and the press were invited to pay last respects in the East Room, and President Johnson was asked if he wanted--and he did. Johnson paid their respects there. He and Mrs. He saw the cabinet on Saturday. And he was busy

Oral history transcript, Elizabeth Rowe, interview 1 (I), 6/6/1975, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

be called the public relations office or the press office. It was a tremendously exciting time, and the Roosevelt victory in '36 was of great satisfaction in the Mine Workers office. My political activity then was confined to writing speeches for some
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Oral history transcript, John A. Schnittker, interview 1 (I), 11/21/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)

? s: No. We simply had to stand up when our name was called, and afterwards talk to some of the press privately. But we had no part of the press LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library

Oral history transcript, G. Preston Smith and Ellen Smith, interview 1 (I), 11/8/1979, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

: Well, but that wasn't exactly our--we didn't have the same don't think. I don't believe so. Maybe it was. goals~ Wait till I find something here. ES: It was more of an English, cultural club, I believe. G: I see. S: There was a press club

Oral history transcript, Ruby G. Martin, interview 1 (I), 2/24/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)

of the Federal Woman's Award winners. I met him personally when we were taken to the White House to meet the President. There was a press briefing, and the President introduced us to the press. That was my first actual opportunity to shake hands with him

Oral history transcript, Dorothy J. Nichols, interview 2 (II), 11/1/1974, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

Stevenson. This was the primary of course, because that's the important campaign in Texas. r It is to this day, I believe. was supposed to travel with the candidate and the press and the speech writer. After the first week when I came back dragging

Oral history transcript, Arthur M. Okun, interview 2 (II), 4/15/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

assuming that job ten or eleven months hence . I guess I was particularly amused and impressed that he said, "Look, this may leak into the press . I recognize that . it doesn't, but that's really up to Gardner in part . I hope If he felt that he

Oral history transcript, Joe Mashman, interview 1 (I), 3/28/1974, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

of this was ever by chance. Yo u weren't flying from, say, Weatherford to Graham and just suddenly realize that's Peaster down there or something like that. M: No, no. It was all planned and programmed. And then the press followed in another car or cars so we

Oral history transcript, George McGovern, interview 2 (II), 2/3/2011, by Mark Updegrove (Item)

back." "By god, it just shows you can't believe everything you see in the press. He didn't look like a nigger to me." Anyway, he didn't think there was anything wrong with that. So I said good bye to him, and I went over to my office, and about a half

Oral history transcript, Benjamin H. Read, interview 1 (I), 1/13/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

actually started to Warsaw, as one press account had it a year ago. And I don't think we'll know until war's end and considerably after whether this was really a tragically missed opportunity or not. M: What about the ones then following that--the other

Oral history transcript, Jewel Malechek Scott, interview 2 (II), 5/30/1990, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

you and I could sitting out here half a day." G: Did the press continue to have an interest in him out here once he was no longer president? S: I think so because--he decided that he was going to have his own milk and eggs here on the Ranch. We were
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Oral history transcript, Lowell K. Bridwell, interview 1 (I), 10/17/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)

in 1946 with the Ohio State Journal . M: When did you go with Scripps-Howard? B: Well, I had an intermediate stop . I was with the Associated Press in the Columbus bureau for about a year and then from the Associated Press went to the Columbus

Oral history transcript, Frank Church, interview 1 (I), 5/1/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

to cut this Gordian knot. And I must say that in those days, he received practically no recognition for his effort. The pro-civil rights press in the large northern and eastern cities viewed Lyndon Johnson as a sentinel of the status quo for the old

Oral history transcript, John E. Babcock, interview 1 (I), 11/22/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

contact with him? B: Johnson was always one to play up to the press, particularly the Austin media. At that time I was working on the Austin Dispatch and was city editor, and so therefore he [knew me], although the Dispatch was not a real strong

Oral history transcript, Andrew Young, interview 1 (I), 6/18/1970, by T.H. Baker (Item)

in Washington." It was a Negro reporter and he wrote it up headlining "Talk Going On About a March To Washington." And that was the big headline across the top of the page and it just seemed to snowball. I think the press and the masses created the kind

Oral history transcript, Nicholas deB. Katzenbach, interview 2 (II), 11/23/68, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

to be unpleasant with the Congress or with the press or something of this kind so that he ought to know he's going to have some dirt thrown at him for doing this. But in fact the decision has already been made, maybe made by some prior occurrence, by some prior

Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 15 (XV), 12/15/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

to the Quadriad, or we'll lay them out to Martin, and let's see what he-- G: The statement to the press was fairly conciliatory, though. C: Compared to the earlier draft. I did send the President a draft of a much tougher statement that said

Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 42 (XLII), 2/14/1989, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

to surround it and know every angle and what have you, number one. Number two, it obviously helped bring that kind of intellectual economic community along once you went and have them supporting you in the press and in their parties and what have you

Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 46 (XLVI), 5/24/1989, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Califano -- XLVI -- 3 Almost from the time--the fall out. We took flak in the press

Oral history transcript, Harry J. Middleton, interview 1 (I), 6/20/1979, by William C. Spragens (Item)

Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh 3--Mid dleton Intervi ew (6-20-7 9) 9. Did you work with all of the Johnso n Press Secret aries? No. 10. What do you think was Presid ent Johnso

Oral history transcript, Sam Houston Johnson, interview 3 (III), 6/9/1976, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

isn't [inaudible]. All this stuff about I know the man. Now, he was a politician and shrewd, but he did not have to tell the press and the world what he intended to do and have his enemies destroy it before he got started. So a lot of the members

Oral history transcript, Clifford Durr and Virginia Foster Durr, interview 1 (I), 3/1/1975, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

" was in Roosevelt's press statement when he released the report. VFD: That wasn't in the report itself. Cliff wrote a brilliant piece, I thought, on credit, saying that the South was the paradox of the nation. CJD: This part was edited out, but the a wastepaper

Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 9 (IX), 8/16/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

of the armory, they had partitions which were higher than one's head, and what the press merely did was to bring up chairs to the partition and look over the partition. everything that was going on. They could see I kicked one United Press reporter out

Oral history transcript, Willard Deason, interview 7 (VII), 4/6/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

Commission the press would eat us both up. So let's forget that." Incidentally, there was a vacancy there. "Let's move on to where we've got some vacancies." So he outlined two or three jobs for me. One of them was the Interstate Commerce Commission

Oral history transcript, John Henry Faulk, interview 1 (I), 12/15/1989, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

was popping down to Washington all the time and the Senator would have me down there. George was his name--was his press secretary then. G: Reedy. F: Reedy, George Reedy was his press secretary. Walter called me one afternoon and said, “The National Press

Oral history transcript, Berl Bernhard, interview 1 (I), 5/7/1986, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

a half-hour of this finally said, "Well, it's a real good meeting, and I'm glad you've been here, and thank you very much for helping your President. Now you want to go out there and talk to the press," and went on and on. And we just got near the door

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